Select Publications
Books
, 2015, Evolution by Natural Selection Confidence, Evidence and the Gap, CRC Press
Book Chapters
, 2022, '"Making Suffering Legible"', in Soldatic K; St Guillaume L (ed.), Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age State Power, Logics and Resistance, Routledge, pp. 226 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003131779-17
, 2022, 'Rights, Justice and Flourishing: The Uses and Limitations of Human Rights', in Felder F; Kayess R; Davy L (ed.), Disability Law and Human Rights Theory and Policy, Springer Nature, pp. 67 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86545-0_4
, 2013, 'Do engineers need to simulate the real world?', in Elyssebeth L (ed.), Crossing Boundaries, Simulation Australia, Rundle Mall, SA, Australia, pp. 129 - 132
, 2012, 'A guru-disciple tradition: Can religious conversion be non-cognitive?', in Philosophical Explorations of New and Alternative Religious Movements, pp. 77 - 95
, 2012, 'A guru-disciple tradition: can religious conversion be non-cognitive?', in Luck M (ed.), Philosophical Explorations of New and Alternative Religious Movements, Ashgate, pp. 77 - 96, http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781409406532&lang=cy-GB
, 2006, 'Accounting for commitments: A priori knowledge, Ontology and logical entailments', in Aspects of Knowing: Epistemological Essays, Elsevier Ltd, The Netherlands, pp. 35 - 52
, 2006, 'Chapter 3 Accounting for Commitments A priori Knowledge, Ontology, and Logical Entailments11This paper derives from work I did while supervised by David Lewis. I benefited immensely from his advice. I also benefited from remarks made on the work by Frank Jackson at the time. More recently I have benefited from comments by Aislinn Batstone, Stephen Hetherington, and Ralph Kennedy.', in Aspects of Knowing, Elsevier, pp. 35 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-008044979-1/50004-7
, 2004, 'The Consolations of Optimism', in Benatar D (ed.), Life, Death and Meaning - Key Philosophy Readings on the Big Questions, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, pp. 383 - 389
, 2003, 'S.J. Gould`s last Words', in Metascience, Springer, pp. 214 - 216
, 1994, 'Cubism, Perspective, Belief1', in Philosophy in Mind, Springer Netherlands, pp. 243 - 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1008-2_16
, 1994, 'Introduction: Philosophy in Mind', in Philosophy in Mind, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1008-2_1
Journal articles
, 2017, 'Philosophy, Certainty and Semantic Stretch', Australasian Philosophical Review, 1, pp. 281 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2017.1379878
, 2017, 'A Companion To David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 95, pp. 416 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1178314
, 2016, 'From Correlation to Causation: What Do We Need in the Historical Sciences?', Acta Biotheoretica, 64, pp. 241 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10441-016-9282-3
, 2016, 'Big data and the historical sciences: A critique', Geoforum, 71, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.02.020
, 2016, 'Naming, Necessity, and More: Explorations in the Philosophical Work of Saul Kripke', AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 94, pp. 836 - 836, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1168460
, 2015, 'Information and Veridicality: Information-Processing and the Bar-Hillel/Carnap Paradox', Philosophy of Science: official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/684165
, 2015, 'On a “most telling” argument for paraconsistent logic', Synthese, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0935-6
, 2015, 'Time Travel for Endurantists', American Philosophical Quarterly, 52, pp. 357 - 365, http://apq.press.illinois.edu/52/4/index.html
, 2015, 'Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought, by Michael T. Ferejohn', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93, pp. 204 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2014.959538
, 2013, 'FACING INCONSISTENCY: THEORIES AND OUR RELATIONS TO THEM.', Episteme, 10, pp. 351 - 367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2013.31
, 2013, 'Problems with Lewis' argument for the identity theory', Ratio, 26, pp. 51 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00538.x
, 2012, 'Problems with Lewis' argument for the identity theory', Ratio, 25, pp. 51 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00538.x/full
, 2010, 'Belief De Re, knowing who, and singular thought', Journal of Philosophy, 107, pp. 293 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jphil2010107623
, 2010, 'Belief De Re, Knowing Who, and Singular Thought', Journal of Philosophy, CVII, pp. 293 - 310
, 2008, 'Implicit ontological commitment', Philosophical Studies, 141, pp. 43 - 61
, 2006, '“How should we think of Human Rights?”,', Human Rights Defender, 15
, 2004, 'The Problems with Double-indexing Accounts of the A Priori', Philosophical Studies, 118, pp. 67 - 81
, 2001, 'Group Blame, Responsibility and Guilt: An Exercise in Social Ontology', Humanitas Asiatica, 2, pp. 39 - 58
, 1999, 'Dummett`s Argument Against Classical Logic', Philosophia, pp. 359 - 382
, 1998, 'Reasonable Optimism', Professional Ethics, pp. 19 - 31
, 1998, 'Tich´y on Kripke on a a posteriori necessities', Philosophical Studies, pp. 113 - 126
, 1996, 'Compatibilist semantics in metaphysics: A case study', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74, pp. 117 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048409612347101
, 1996, 'Against compatibalist semantics', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, pp. 117 - 134
, 1995, 'The dialectics of scepticism: Comments on gallois', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73, pp. 123 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048409512346431
, 1995, 'Binary quantification systems', Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 36, pp. 382 - 395, http://dx.doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1040149354
, 1995, 'Binary quantification logics', Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, pp. 382 - 395
, 1995, 'The dialectics of scepticism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, pp. 123 - 128
Conference Papers
, 2017, 'The limits of simulation in complex engineering systems', in Proceedings of the Australasian Simulation Congress 2017, Simulation Australia, Sydney, presented at Australasian Simulation Conference 2017, Sydney, 28 August 2017 - 31 January 2018, http://proceedings.simulationaustralasia.com/index.html
, 2015, 'Are we simulated beings in a holographic universe?', in Monaghan M (ed.), SimTecT and SimHealth 2015 Conference Proceedings, Simulation Australasia, Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia, pp. 287 - 291, presented at SimTecT2015 Asia-Pacific Simulation Training Conference & Exhibition, Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia, 17 August 2015 - 21 August 2015, http://www.simulationaustralasia.com/files/upload/pdf/SimTecT%20and%20SimHealth%202015%20Conference%20Proceedings.pdf
, 2014, 'ACTING PSYCHIATRY', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, pp. 69 - 70, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337594500165&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2012, 'The philosophy of engineering based swarms', in SimTecT 2012: Simulation - Integrated Solutions, Simulation Australia Ltd, Australia, pp. 1 - 6, presented at Simulation Technology and Training Conference 2012, Adelaide, South Australia, 18 June 2012 - 21 June 2012
, 2011, 'Simulation for the real world.', in SimTecT 2011, Simulation Australia, Rundle Mall, South Australia, pp. 124 - 128, presented at Asia-Pacific Simulation and Training Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, 31 May 2011 - 02 June 2011
Conference Presentations
, 2014, 'Are simulations models?', presented at SimTecT2014, Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia, 25 August 2014 - 28 August 2014, http://www.simulationaustralia.org.au/